i just bought a new maxtor sata drive and i wanted to make it a slave and use it for storage. i hooked it all up and everything but my comp doesn't recognize it, i don't know alot about installing hd's so i'm not sure wot i have to do, i dled some drivers but it didn't help at all. not sure if i need some different ones or wot i need to do, but when the comp boots up it doesn't recognize the hd as primary or secondary drive or anything, but it recognized it on the serial ch thing but once windows boots up it doesn't display the drive.
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sata drive help
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coverdinskin
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you would need to go to the maxtor website to download a program to set up your specific hd
thats what i did with my seagate hd, and gigabyte 7n400pro2
no less than an hour ago
thats what i did with my seagate hd, and gigabyte 7n400pro2
no less than an hour ago
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i went to the disk management a few times and it didn't show the hd and i searched the mobo disk and there wasn't anything for it really, but somehow after i tinked around a bit more it showed up in disk management, i dunno wot i did maybe something in the bios, but i formated and partitioned it and it works fine now, except when i boot up it still says "primary slave none" but its workin on my comp so i dunno.
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